Amy Winehouse remembered; Women's cricket; Botox and fillers; Violence against women strategy
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This Friday marks 10 years since the tragic death of the singer Amy Winehouse from alcohol poisoning at the age of just 27. A new documentary film, Reclaiming Amy on BBC 2 on Friday at 9pm features Amy's closest friends and family and seeks to tell the story of the real Amy. We hear from her mother, Janis and close friend Catriona Gourlay.
A brand-new cricket competition, the Hundred is launching today. It's the first time a major team sport competition, which features both male and female teams, has opened with a women’s match. Despite a push for equality, the women playing in this tournament are set to earn thousands of pounds less than the men. Can this competition change things further for women in cricket? Head of the Women's Hundred and Female Engagement at the ECB, Beth Barrett-Wild and English international cricketer, Kate Cross join Chloe to discuss.
After a year long inquiry the all party parliamentary group on aesthetics beauty and wellbeing has called for much tougher regulation of Botox and fillers. MPs say the lack of proper regulation is putting women at risk. But their report stops short of recommending that only healthcare practitioners should be allowed to inject. We hear about the background and some of the horror stories from our reporter Melanie Abbott, and then from David Sines, who chairs the body registering practitioners and overseeing training providers, the Joint Council of Cosmetic Practitioners and Leslie Blair from the British Association of Beauty therapy and Cosmetology, which represents therapists.
Plans to tackle violence against women and girls following the mass protests when the marketing executive Sarah Everard was murdered on her way home from a friend's house, have been unveiled by the government. This strategy also comes amid concern about low rape conviction rates and a culture of sexual harassment at schools. Chloe is joined by Andrea Simon, Director of End Violence Against Women Coalition and BBC special correspondent, Lucy Manning.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Chloe Tilly. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to Woman's Air from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to Wednesdays at Woman's Hour. |
| 0:43.0 | She was a phenomenal talent who died at the age of just 27 |
| 0:47.0 | after a much documented struggle with alcohol and drugs. |
| 0:51.0 | But ten years after the death of Amy Winehouse, her family and close friends are reclaiming |
| 0:55.8 | Amy by sharing their memories to counterbalance the tabloid coverage that so many of us remember. |
| 1:01.7 | Well I've been speaking to Amy's mom Janice and Close Fend |
| 1:04.5 | Catriona about Amy Winehouse ahead of a new BBC documentary about her life. You're |
| 1:09.4 | going to hear that shortly. Also today for the first time a major sports competition will see women and men get an |
| 1:16.8 | equal billing. |
| 1:18.8 | Cricket's the 100 launches tonight opening with a women's match. Now it's aimed at making cricket more accessible to younger |
| 1:25.6 | and more diverse audiences. |
| 1:27.4 | It's simplifying jargon and it's trying to broaden out from its white male |
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